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Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r and around four orfive hilltops. The remains are mainly shapelessmasses of cut stones, among which one sees avariety of arches, vaulted roofs, and cave-likerooms, many of which have been cleared out, andare occupied by ploughmen and harvesters at cer-tain seasons of the year. Among these ruins are numberless ancient cis-terns, most of which are almost filled with rubbishand debris, and all along the hilltops and in theshallow valleys we noted the dike-like boundarieswhich gathered the rainfall and drained it into thecisterns at the lower sides of these divisions (see p-245). The few cisterns which have been clearedout lie east of the main road, and unfortunately aregreatly defiled by manure, dust, and all the filthwhich lies about their mouths and drains back intothem. A second boiling cleared it a little, but didnot remove all the odor ! While wandering- amongf the ruins we baes^edseveral partridges, some wild pigeons, and started afox or two. We visited the tomb on the hill to the
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Macleba to Kerak 299 west and noticed that the many walls there seemedin better condition than those on the other hills.There were not lacking at many points the recenttraces of treasure hunters; for the fame of thisblack Moabite Stone will never fade from thememories of these people, and the story retold fromyear to year will not grow any smaller. One suchoccurrence incites the whole countryside to be onthe lookout for coins and inscriptions, so that it isstill safe to say with Palmer that there is probablynot another such inscription above ground in all theland of Moab. Toward sunset we took our rifles and fired awayat marks and rocks, and took toll from each flockof wild pigeons that settled in our vicinity. Thenwe made all necessary arrangements for watchingour animals in this lonely wilderness. We do notrecall seeing a living soul from the time we leftWady Waleh until early the next morning, whenthe alarm was given, and the intruder proved to bethe soldier from Kerak passing with

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